Speaking to families of terror victims whose murderers will be released for a worthless corporal, Netanyahu posed the choice as the one between “redeeming captives and protecting citizens.” Of course, he couldn’t care less about the captive, but simply bows down to media’s howling.

Polls indicate about forty to sixty percent of Jewish Israelis in favor of exchanging Shalit. What would be a better testimony to inefficiency of democracy in the era when media manufacture public opinion?

Israeli government, proud as an ostrich with his head in sand, refuses talking with Hamas. Instead, it involved a German go-between.

Israeli discussion with Hamas center on less than a dozen high-ticket prisoners. Hundreds of other murderers and would-be murderers are released, no questions asked. The government ignores an obvious fact that Israeli Arabs are enemies just like their West Bank brethren, and refuses releasing the terrorists who happen to be Israeli residents. A proper action would be to release them along with 1.5 million their compatriots, currently in Israel.

A little chance remain that Netanyahu and the heads of Shabak and Mossad would prevail over Barak and Ashkenazi in rejecting the exchange.

Samson Blinded